Andrew Sean Greer: Less
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In his novel Less, Andrew Sean Greer discusses filterless writing and the idea of getting what you want in a world bent on not giving you what you want.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.3 | Boots! |
| 0:10.0 | Where would we be without boos? |
| 0:13.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Timberg. |
| 0:17.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:20.0 | But where would we be without books? |
| 0:23.6 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm. |
| 0:30.6 | Today I have one of my favorite writers. |
| 0:35.0 | Andrew Sean Greer is here with his novel, Les. It appeared on August 6th, on the front |
| 0:44.8 | page of the New York Times book review. In a spectacular review, the hero of Les, author |
| 0:53.4 | Les, yes, is turning 50. |
| 0:56.7 | On that day, August 6th, I was busy turning 65. |
| 1:00.9 | Really? |
| 1:01.7 | Yes. |
| 1:02.8 | But what's very moving is that author was for some 20 years, wasn't it? |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.6 | The lover of a Pulitzer Prize winning poet. |
| 1:18.6 | He prefers unusual for young men. |
| 1:23.6 | He prefers older men. |
| 1:26.6 | And so his lover taught him how to live in the literary world. |
| 1:33.3 | And eventually they split up and in a kind of what, regresses at infinitum, a younger writer, a high school English teacher, appears, |
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